Workshop Schedule Session 5: Venus and Special Topics

August 25, Wednesday Morning


Chair: Larry Esposito	Co-Chair: Eric Chassefiere
Scope: Venus focused Science, Mission Architecture, Technology, Sensors. Includes special topics that may have cross-cutting application.

Session Time	Topic/Details (Including links to the abstracts for the presentations where available)	Presentation	Author(s)/Speaker (in bold)
7:30 - 8:00	Continental Breakfast at the workshop
8:00 - 8:20	Future Venus Probe Missions	Full	Dr. Larry Esposito, University of Colorado
8:20 - 8:45	LAVOISIER : A Low-Altitude Balloon Network for Probing Deep Atmosphere and Surface of Venus. (word)	Full	Eric Chassefiere, University P et M. Curie
8:45 - 9:15	ESA Venus Entry Probe Study (word)	Full	M.L. van den Berg, Science Payload and Advanced Concepts Office, European Space Agency, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands P. Falkner, Science Payload and Advanced Concepts Office, European Space Agency, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands A. Phipps, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., Guildford, United Kingdom J.C. Underwood, Vorticity Ltd., Oxfordshire, United Kingdom J.S. Lingard, Vorticity Ltd., Oxfordshire, United Kingdom J. Moorhouse, Vorticity Ltd., Oxfordshire, United Kingdom S. Kraft, Vorticity Ltd., Oxfordshire, United Kingdom A. Peacock, Science Payload and Advanced Concepts Office, European Space Agency, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
9:15 - 9:25	Rotary-wing Decelerators for Probe Descent Through the Atmosphere of Venus (pdf)	Poster	Larry A. Young, Army/NASA Rotorcraft Division,ARC Geoffrey Briggs, Center for Mars Exploration,ARC Edwin Aiken, Army/NASA Rotorcraft Division,ARC Greg Pisanich, QSS Group, Computational Sciences Division,ARC
9:25 - 9:35	A Search for Viable Venus and Jupiter Sample Return Mission Trajectories for the Next Decade (word)	Poster	Jason N. Leong, Graduate, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, San José State University Dr. Periklis Papadopoulos, Advising Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, San José State University
9:35 - 9:45	Helium-3 Mining Aerostats in the Atmospheres of the Outer Planets	Poster	Rich Reinert, Ball Aerospace
9:45 - 9:55	Re-Entry Simulation and Landing Area for YES2	Poster	Silvia Calzada, European Space Agency
9:55 - 10:10	Break
10:10 - 10:35	Neutral Mass Spectrometry for Venus Atmosphere and Surface	Full	Paul Mahaffy, NASA GSFC
10:35 - 11:00	Atmospheric Structure Investigations	Full	Dr. Anthony Colaprete, NASA ARC
11:00 - 11:05	A Probe IMU for Atmospheric Reconstruction	Poster	Dr. Anthony Colaprete, NASA ARC
11:05 - 11:30	Synergy Between Probes and Orbiter	Full	Rich Young, NASA ARC
11:30 - 12:00	PANEL DISCUSSION: Issues for Venus Probe Exploration	Panel Members: L. Esposito, E. Chassefiere, R. Young, M. van den Berg
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch provided at workshop